Guangyan Cai
Guangyan Cai

Ph.D. Candidate

About Me

I am Guangyan Cai (蔡广彦), a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine School of Information and Computer Science. My research, conducted under the guidance of Prof. Shuang Zhao, focuses on physics-based differentiable rendering and its applications, with a particular emphasis on inverse rendering.

Prior to my doctoral studies, I obtained my B.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego, where I had the privilege of working with Prof. Ravi Ramamoorthi.

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Interests
  • Inverse Rendering
  • Differentiable Rendering
  • 3D Reconstruction
Education
  • Ph.D. Computer Science

    University of California, Irvine

  • B.S. Computer Science

    University of California, Irvine

Featured Publications
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(2024). PBIR-NIE: Glossy Object Capture under Non-Distant Lighting. arXiv.
(2023). Neural-PBIR Reconstruction of Shape, Material, and Illumination. 2023 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV).
(2022). Physics‐Based Inverse Rendering using Combined Implicit and Explicit Geometries. Computer Graphics Forum.
(2021). Differentiable time-gated rendering. ACM Transactions on Graphics.
(2020). Analytic spherical harmonic gradients for real-time rendering with many polygonal area lights. ACM Transactions on Graphics.
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